The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-23
Weekly News Summary.

M. If. BURNS farm Oullulngs III AUnenS
were burned Monday,
DR. MIDDLETON GOLDSMITH of Rutland is
sick and past recovery.
THE Grand Army fair in Brattleboro
netted something over 500.
JOHN ZERO of Swanton is missing and is
supposed to have been drowned.
FRED HADLEY's tenement-house in Shell
burn was burned Sunday. Loss $500
Four hayward citizens of Burlington were
escorted to the house of correction Friday.
REV. L. L. SowLEs has closed his services
with the Baptist church in Newport Center.
SEVERAL villages in the vicinity of Bel
lows Falls are suffering from the ravages of
diphtheria.
THE large barns of Frederick Chaffee Of
Rutland were burned on Friday, Loss
$1,000 to $4,000.
THE State Board of Agriculture will hold
its meeting for orleans county at Newport
December 81 and %.
Mr. LESSOR, landlord of the Malett's Bay
House the past season, has leased the Dixon
House in Underhill
DIR. L. HANAFoRD, a wel-known drug
gist of Middleburv, died suddenly on Fri
day, aged about fifty.
THE Rutland one-cent daily newspaper
died an easy death after few weeks exist
ence in this cruel world.
THE Newport people are said to be trying
to get the customs business of the Pacific
railway all at that place.
THE house of correction now has seventy
nine inmates, fourteen of whom are
women-a large proportion.
THE Congregational societies of South
Hero and Grand Isle have engaged Rev.
Mr. Harris for the ensuing year.
THE Howard Relief Society will realize
about SO, 900 from the settlement of the es-
tate of the late Louisa Howard.
ROYAL FULLER of Rochester, who recently
stole a horse from farmer in that town, is
safely lodged in Woodstock jail.
HEALTH OFFICER CAvERLy tells the peo-
pie that sink-drains and privies are respon-
sible for most of Rutland's diphtheria.
TWENTY-FIVE veterans are at the Soldiers
Home. The farm cottage will be ready for
sleeping quarters for fifteen more this week.
REV. A. j. AUBREY of Ludlow has re-
ceived a call to the Beverly (Mass) Univer-
salist church. which he will probably accept.
A. w. GRAY's Sons of Middletown Springs
recently shipped to Africa rice threshing
machine, to be run by man instead of horse
power.
IT is said the shipment of fresh beef from
Chicago to Boston is about to be resumed
by way of the Central Vermont and North
ern roads.
HE NdlUdDlt library Oh UUt late IOeN. Ut.
StarkS of Poultney has been presented
by his children to the Troy Conference
Academy.
GOVERNOR ORMsBEE and Judge Veazey
went to Gettysburg last week to definitely
contract for locations for the Vermont
monuments.
THERE are at present fifteen secret So
cieties in Bellows Falls all in tlourshing
condition. which have total membership
of over 1000.
THE trustees of the asylum at Brattleboro
have recently erected granite monument
to the memory of Mrs. Marsh, the founder
of the institution.
IT has been definitely decided that the
extensive machne-shop works of the Jones
& Lamson Company shall be removed from
Windsor to Springfield.
THE quarantine of the towns of Orwell
and Benson has been raised, except as to
certain farms and herds. News from the
infected herds is favorable.
RUTLANDs diphtheria epidemic was ap-
parently subsiding until Saturday, when
four cases were reported, making forty-two
in all, seven of which proved fatal,
THE Womans Christian Temperance
Union of Cambrdgeport has protested
against the political action at Woodstock,
and sustain its delegates in opposing it.
HARVEY d. SABIN and family of st. AL
bans sail for Bermuda this week, to be alb
sent till May next. Mr.. Sabin is to have
charge of stationary engine in a hotel.
AT West Barnet Simon Mavo had his
clothing caught in the shafting of mill.
Several of his limbs were broken and his
head and legs were badly cut and bruised.
A RUTLAND man dropped roll of bills
say S2,500-on the ground, where, after re-
naming several hours safely covered with
mud it was found and returned to him by
a friend
WARREN HoUGHToN, a Putney laborer,
was found dead on the road about half
mile from that village Friday morning. He
is supposed to have been killed by falling
from his horse.
REV. H. G.. PILLsBURy has rendered his
resignation as pastor of the Congregational
church at Bristol, n. H., that he may accept
a call to Vergennes at a salary of 81 800
and parsonage.
BY carriage accident on the toll-bridge
at Bellows Falls Mrs. Harmon, an elderly
lady from Langdon, n. H., was seriously
injured, breaking a number of bones. Her
recovery is doubtful
THE next, which is the forty-fourth, ses-
sion of the Vermont Conference will be
held April 18th, 1888, under the presidency
of Bishop Randolph S. Foster, ID D., LID,
probably at West Randolph.
o. L. SLATER, for many years proprie tor
OF the restaurant at the union passenger
station at Bellows Falls. has sold ont his
business to Henry Aldrich of Keene, n. II =,
and will go to Providence, r. |.
THE following patents have been granted
Ira E. Brown, Mt. Holly, assignor to NJ. NJ.
and Il. Mcguire, Rutland baking-tin
Aaron f. North and w. III. Sheldon, West
Rutland, stone sawing-machine.
THE creamery business of w. r. Boynton
& Co. at Alburgh has consumed one and
one-half million pounds Of milk during the
past season, for which SO 200 were paid the
amount being distributed among seventy
patrons.
FRED AND JOHN ALLEN and Benjamin
Phelps of South Hero had narrow escape
from drowning the other day. Their boat
capszed, and it was only by the greatest
eXertion on the part of Fred Allen that the
other two We're saved.
ONE of our business men who was out yes
terday trying TO collect money due him says
that the physicians in this city must be do
ing good business, for about every family
he visited had just paid their doctors BILL
burlington Free Press.
EIGHT suits are pending against the Cen
trail Vermont railroad brought by parties
who sustained injuries at the Hartford
disaster last February. These suits are all
returnable in Boston, with probable chance
of trial in January 1883.
A LANDSLIDE of huge dimensions is re-
ported from .Pawlet. 1t occurred on the
Brownell slate quarry, operated by Hugh
w. Hughes 81 Son, and carried down with II
derricks and other property. The loss is
5000, and il will take two months to clear